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Re:Why physicists still use Fortran (2015) by adrianN on Sunday October 15, 2017 @02:23PM (#15478370)
Well, that Fortran codebase probably also was written in large parts by PhD students, not export Fortran programmers.
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Re:Why physicists still use Fortran (2015) by sampo on Sunday October 15, 2017 @03:10PM (#15478694)
Fortran is a much simpler and safer language than C++. And faster to learn. Fortran is even somewhat simpler than C or Java, whereas C++ is probably the most complicated language in the known universe.

So especially in the hands of non-experts, Fortran should produce less bugs.

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Re:Why physicists still use Fortran (2015) by HelloNurse on Sunday October 15, 2017 @04:33PM (#15479152)
C++ is complex. Perl is complicated.
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Re:Why physicists still use Fortran (2015) by aswanson on Sunday October 15, 2017 @03:25PM (#15478786)
Funny as hell. Perl, though.
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Re:Why physicists still use Fortran (2015) by sitkack on Sunday October 15, 2017 @02:41PM (#15478490)
C++ is a more efficient language to write difficult to track down bugs in than Fortran.
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